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SAMSON ET DALILA
1998 – ERATO
Running time: 124 min.
Artists: José Cura, Olga Borodina, Jean-Philipp Lafont, Robert Lloyd, Egils Silins.
Conductor: Sir Colin Davis
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Winner of the 1998 Orphée d’Or de l’Académie du Disque Lyrique award.
The complete Samson is thoroughly recommendable on all counts.
— Andante
Cura is subtle and inward in the first two acts, and finds a different mode of expression altogether—by turns despairing and forcefully heroic — for Act III (by then blinded, bound and betrayed).
— BBC Magazine
José Cura is quite magnificent, justifying the belief of all those who see him as the white hope of the tenor scene.
— Classic CD
